Articles by Michael Bourne
January 3, 2013
My New Year’s Resolution: Read Fewer Books 49
I’m a genius, I’ve been quietly telling myself for the past 13 years, and nobody even knows it.
December 16, 2012
A Year in Reading: Michael Bourne 0
Flynn is especially good at creating damaged, dangerous women whose deeply imagined inner lives break your heart even as the characters create havoc in the lives of the people around them.
November 30, 2012
The Art of Being The Boss: On Peter Ames Carlin’s Bruce 1
While Bruce is too often a workmanlike affair, one comes away from this new Springsteen biography happy that its author had the good sense to get out of the way and just let Bruce be Bruce.
November 28, 2012
A Backward Glance at the ‘Brooklyn Renaissance’ 16
Mock all you want, but for the moment, if you want to write literary fiction or poetry, Brooklyn is still the place to be.
October 29, 2012
Staff Pick: The New Jim Crow 4
Thanks in large part to the drug war, more than 2 million people, disproportionate numbers of them black and Hispanic, are locked up in America’s prisons, giving us an incarceration rate of 750 per 100,000 people, higher than in Russia, China or Iran.
September 25, 2012
The ‘You’ In Yunior: Junot Diaz’s This Is How You Lose Her 3
Yunior is not a bad guy, but he is growing up, and as Diaz is honest enough to admit in this collection, getting older isn’t necessarily all mellowing out and seeing the error in your youthful ways.